Learning Projects

2014-2015Here are some of the learning

projects that took place this school year while I was a second grade

teacher.

This is a bulletin board used to keep track of all the people and places we skyped with. We skyped with authors,

scientists, illustrators, web designers, microsoft executives, and other classrooms around the world.

Skype in the classroom was used in conjunction with lessons to help enhance them. Towards the end of the year the

children wrote a reflection about what they learned from skype.

The highest reading group read Igraine the Great by Cornelia Funke. They then were required to pick classmates that were not in their group to help them create a castle out of recycled materials. They were also required to work together to write about the inhabitants that lived in the castle and write labels for the castle. The students researched the correct terms. Through this project they learned how to work together in groups, resolve conflicts, history terms, language arts, and use creativity.

This was an experiment done on force and distance. We created “cannons” using paper cups and balloons. The students then worked in groups and launched objects of various weight and shape to see which would go the furthest. They made a hypothesis before the experiment and conclusions afterwards. Some of the conclusions were about the size , aero dynamic, and force with which they launched the object.

We did a lot of hands on activities for Math. Some of these included marking off tiles on the floor to talk about area and perimeter, going outside to find examples of quadrilaterals, and as shown in the picture; less than, more than, equal to.